[lit-ideas] Re: another really old poem
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 14:00:29 EDT
Grazzi -- maybe two glasses of wine following a day of back-breaking labour
is good for my verbal skills....<g>.
Julie Krueger
========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: another really
old poem Date: 4/11/05 11:47:48 P.M. Central Daylight Time From:
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On 2005/04/12, at 13:35, JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx wrote:
> My whole house looks like a war
> zone. It needs a bull-dozer. But there are two places; my back
> bathroom and my
> kitchen, which look like a maid lives there. Flowers, plants,
> pristine, you
> could eat off any surface. The rest of the house? Should be
> condemned.
> Isolated perfection is the most some of us can hope for. General
> mediocrity
> doesn't cut it. Does that help your paper? I can send you photos of
> the
> Martha Stewart worthy two rooms and the other trailer-trash rooms.
> Actually, I
> was trying to make my living room work today but the TV was 4" too
> tall for the
> entertainment center space and I can't cut the TV down and I'm
> looking on
> the internet for carpentry advice for adjusting shelves to which
> hinged doors
> are attached. Have I mentioned that I would rather be reading
> Candide than
> sorting ancient books like "The Modern Woman's Health", written in
> 1945? How
> do you get rid of books? I will not burn or trash them. You
> wouldn't believe
> the diagrams of a foetus in 1945. Or what it says about
> masturbation. Or
> sexual responsibility. Dear God in Heaven. And then there's the
> book I
> found on Etiquette, from 1937. I'm forcing my children to read the
> chapter on
> Childrens' table manners. Why are these things in my house??? Did I
> ask them
> here? Did I call them? Did I purchase them? Did they follow me
> home one
> day, insidiously? What about the autobiography of Neil Young, which
> largely
> details his swimming naked on acid? Why do I have this? There's
> only one
> answer. Someone broke into my house one day and planted tons of
> junk, just to
> make me think I'm crazy. It's working. There's even a book on
> Interior
> Decorating from the 1950's which would scare anyone on this list. I
> can scan
> photos in colour, if requested......(put your sunglasses on).
>
This is poetry!
John L. McCreery
The Word Works, Ltd.
55-13-202 Miyagaya, Nishi-ku
Yokohama, Japan 220-0006
Tel 81-45-314-9324
Email John.McCreery@xxxxxxxxxxxx
"Making Symbols is Our Business"
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